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Subject: Re: [9fans] skulker
From: "Fco. J. Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:25:03 +0200
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> why create a whole new flag (-T) to 'ls' just to show files of type DMTMP,
> when we can use the second char in the first field of an 'ls -l', currently reserved only for DMEXCL
> files?

Why not just assume that we have another permission flag, and write
it like we do with any other one? eg talrwxr-x-rx

Would that break so many scripts and programs?